The Strange Case of Paleto Bay 

Me watching GTA 5 Paleto Bay lore at 3 AM

I frequently drive out to Paleto bay for literally no reason It’s mad peaceful

Takes 4 hours to drive to paleto bay in GTA time

Some cars have the customization option to put “1979 Rally de Paleto” sign which means Paleto Bay actually held some rally races like that in 1979

I spend a lot of time here in GTA online. The house there is small but its the closest thing to a beach house. The town is really peaceful. And most griefers don't bother people in Paleto Bay

Tbh I think there are 3 reasons as to why paleto bay doesn’t do well from a town POV: 1. The Robbery of the bank in paleto ( The Paleto score ) from story mode may have hurt the reputation of the small town, and thus people don’t want to visit it ( if story mode takes place before online) 2. Also like in storymode, it’s stated in Lamar Down that the ballas use the sawmill in paleto to ship out weed, and if we consider the other mc businesses, bunkers and salvage yard, then there is a lot more illegal businesses in paleto than you think. 3. Lastly, Trevor mention in paleto score setup that the cops are crooked, so maybe the town officials are crooked as well. Sorry if this is long, but that’s the ideas I have

Why the hell am I watching Paleto bay lore instead of studying for my finals tomorrow? Edit: for anybody that cares, I did alright on my finals

I always thought the Car dealership never being finished was more of a reference to the 2008 Financial Crisis halting a lot of developments throughout the world. The world was still feeling it's effects in 2013, and the game references this a few times. It would make sense to a see an unfinished development like that still untouched in 2013

It’s a factory town. I think sometimes people forget that while GTA heavily relies on absurdism-satire it also makes a lot of basic social commentary. There are thousands of small factory towns all over the world that are effectively dead because a large factory or several large factories were built and the intent was to hope everyone in that town would simply aspire to work in said factories. Anyone reading this can find a town just like this wherever they live. The Industrial Revolution made lots of beneficial advances but it also created large expanses of space that have become legitimately derelict.

Despite Paleto being far away from everything else, i kinda like it even though rockstar has a tendency to send us there during setup missions, but observing this small town it's alot better than sandy shores, its got everything you could ask for and there's a few businesses you could buy.

I'm a sheriff from Paleto Bay, I remember that on the day of the robbery I was on an emergency call in Chumash I arrived in Paleto Bay along with a train, my friend died that day.

As someone who currently lives in Paleto Bay (in GTA online) it's a great place I got a house a front of the beach, whenever I feel like it I like to drive my caracara 4x4 through the forest I just wish I had a dog with me in the game. Also I wish if their was more activities to do up there it's a great place because of the low crime rate, although my neighbors once told me that there was a huge bank robbery before I moved there I wonder who the perpetrators were I guess I will never find out

There's not just Cluckin' Bell in Paleto. There is also a sawmill, trolley to Mount Chiliad, and a pretty big complex with lumberjack statue near ocean

Poleto bay could be just a village near a river bank that is connected to san fierro , Lester mentioned that the north part is just a river , not an ocean which make sense because no one treats Los Santos as an island

Thank you for making a video about Paleto Bay! Even though it may seem weird, but I like the town and all of my online property is in there. Yeah it may take 4-5 minutes to drive to Los Santos, but it's honestly worth the time for me.

The factory is there because the trains tracks run behind it. 9/10 just like with the rest of the United States, the train was there first before the town was. Town probably only formed because of the railroad.

Horses were intended to be in the game, there are horse models, horse noise sound files and voice clips of the story mode characters interacting with horses. And also there are the signs and even Martin madrazos house has a huge horse ranch

there is 8 bodies in the ocean near paleto bay

What a solid video, mate! I love Paleto Bay, I fell in love with this town. My only apartment is literally here, the 4584 Procopio. The scenery, the atmosphere, it just gave me a feel of calmness before starting to grind every time I log in. I don't mind travelling 10+ kilometres from the city to Paleto Bay, because it's such a rewarding feeling once I arrive there. Since I'm a PS4 user, it's also a good thing to log in in Paleto Bay in public lobby, no FPS drop whatsoever since literally nobody's there. My bunker is in Paleto Bay, my Arcade is here too! I just fell in love with this place as a whole!

This is the type of story i love about gta!

Ngl, this is by far my favourite place in gta. It feels like even though it's a little run down it has community. It just needs a little money injected and it'll become a beautiful little seaside town. Also in terms of natural looks, its beautiful

Thought there’d be a creepy mystery but got housing/urban development and criticism of incompetent government and business handling, based. Imagine if GTA 6 had some simpler form of Fallout 4’s system of managing some npc’s to develop towns and businesses for settlements

Fun fact: In the mission "Pack Man" it is stated by Trevor that the drive from Los Santos to the northern border of Paleto Bay is supposed to take four hours.

I actually bought one of the MC club houses and all of the MC businesses in paleto Bay, it's not terribly inconvenience since I don't actually do any of the sell missions, I just use them for the nightclub and sell what I can to the street dealers. Realistically it's a great place for beginners, there are cheap properties along with a free helicopter spawn at the police station there are very convenient spawns for Pegasus Vehicles right on the beach Plus ammunition and beekers garage being right there and a slim chance of running into anybody who's going to grief on your way to any of the above-mentioned things.

This is the kinda video to watch at 2-6 am, so that’s what I’m doing

okay so lets be honest we all keep an apartment up in Paleto Bay when we wanna get away lol . I know that ill randomly move to Paleto Bay, spawn there and all. Hard to maintain in just that space, but with a bunker and an arcade up there, you can make do.

Paleto Bay may seem down in the dumps, but many of the local folk work at my facility by the ocean. I make sure to spread the wealth in town.

Paleto Bay is another quiet small town like something out of Bully. That game has a somewhat small map on the outside but on the inside everything feels bigger when you’re traveling on foot or bike because there’s no cars to drive.

I think the housing issue with Paleto Bay has to do with the game itself. During the drive up to the Paleto score there is a possible line mentioning that the water north of Paleto is actually a river. Meaning that a possible norther map expansion could have meant that it would be way closer to another city/village.

This the type of content I miss watching ,back in 2013 with the all Easter eggs and mysteries on GTA that was a good binge, now you just bring the memories back, keep it up man, quality content!!

In some huge FiveM servers like PGN, Paleto Bay is one of the most populated places. So much so that in PGN, they added a brand new town bridged from Paleto to this town because players love the atmosphere there than Sandy Shores.

Horses definitely were going to be in the game. There’s files in the game for a horse model, horse sounds, character reactions to hitting horses, and even police radio files where they say if the character is riding a horse.

Love these type of vids brotha. Would love to see this type of video on Los Santos itself. Theres a lot going on in LS that only people who pay attention to the lore withen the game would know. Maybe also fort zancudo or the prison.

Corruption

I retired to Paleto. Waiting on my condo in VC to be finished. Been a lot of setbacks but they're assuring it'll be ready next year.

I just found your channel today and I’m loving it. The vibe is so cool and your take on each location is amazing. Thank you

Small detail but the music choice was perfect for this video, really makes it whole.

It was also hit by the recession. A sign on one of the closed businesses says this.

I love these type of gta lore videos, thanks!

Your production quality has improved significantly. 👍

U just gave me a whole different perspective on the GTA 5 Map and I start to appreciate the small and large parts of the map that make it so amazing❤

Just got recommended this vid, checked out your channel, havent seen to tier content like this in ages - and every video seems this good. Please keep up your hard work ❤

You did this so cinematically, very cool. Thanks for the upload, dude 😎

The Cluckin Bell factory NPC'S outside on break have some hilarious dialogue

Horses were going to be in the game but they were cut there is actually several voice lines for each character mentioning them

This was such a well made video exploring the lore, design process and thought behind one small city. You've earned a sub, i'll watch the rest of your vids and wait for future lore vids like these too. GTA 5 and its world hold a special place in my heart so anytime i see a lore vid i am delighted. :D

Great video man

I like these cozy videos researching towns and locations in GTA 5

These make me wanna drive around gtav

I'm pretty sure the reason why the construction didn't finished in 2008 was because of economic crisis that happened in 2008 and the construction plan didn't recovered from it.

Played this game so much that I forgot for one second it is a imaginary game and started to care about the development paleto needs.

bro i like your content🤩

Me: TODAY I WILL FALL ASLEEP AT 11PM !! That’s my word! Also me at 3AM:

Paleto Bay is the Hazzard County of San Andreas. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm going to see the General Lee speeding through town being chased by the cops who drive white patrol cars just like Rosco P. Coltrain and his officers do in the show.

They should’ve added a new city near the highway up north like a city from gta sa

My grandma lives in Paleto bay, all though she lives far from where I live in vinewood hills I visit her every Sunday plus I like the scenery of the journey❤

Or just most people comes from LS for work. Like real life, people travel long distances just for work

Great video!

Cool video but I think this is a case where depending on the background music and how you present certain things it could show a whole different vibe

I used to live there it was so much calmer then the city but I moved from it and now it’s just memories

Good info. My entire motorcycle club and its properties are based in and around Paleto Bay. I even bought a house there with an ocean view to use while I run things. I'm going to move out soon, though, because my clubhouse has a cot for when I'm in the area, and I just got a nightclub to run things from at lsia.

Its 10:30 and I'm about to graduate in the morning and this is what I choose to watch 😂. Best choice

Horses were meant to be in the game. There are audio files in the game for when you hit them with a car in story mode.

The town should really take advantage of the fact that its serviced by a highway. This lore is extremely interesting!

I love Paleto Bay. Been living there since 2015.

7:35 Horses were indeed meant to be in GTA 5, as they were going to be used in the scrapped Sharmoota Job as a getaway vehicle, and in the mission Lamar Down, which wasn't even meant to take place at the Sawmill, but rather the Del Perro car park, where Michael was going to arrive on a horse, and Trevor... a lazer jet.

havent touch gta 5 in 1 year but i still watch these

My second character lives in Paleto Bay. I always liked it, but because my other characters only visited PB for work, I never got to really experience it in detail. Now that I have a character that lives there, I love it a whole lot more.

I really like these lore videos 🤘

One thing I noticed that's mentioned here is the common misconception that Paleto sits on the Ocean, the water north of Paleto is confirmed to be a river via Lester during The Paleto Score heist(which is in Single Player) and notably a GTA Online mission for Lester called "Bust Out" refers to a Paleto County(likely north of Paleto due to its name), I do understand the reason for the common misconception(due to it being referenced in one GTAV heist, and a random GTA Online Mission) though. Also I could be wrong but i'm pretty sure The Cluckin Bell Cartel(as Vincent calls them) only started it's Operation in the Factory sometime in 2023.

I like Paleto bay a lot. For many years all my MC businesses were operating there so I had a reason to go back and fourth a lot

Wow, the cinematography in this one! You sure have a good eye. I'm guessing you're an artist?

Just food for thought- given your analysis of the infrastructure shows you could be an amazing civil manager.

i now know more about paleto bay than my own city

This be hitting hard watchin this at 1:47am

The little things that appear on the Gas Station at night always weirded me out also there is a black spider nest that appear near that area at night under a bridge and also up mt chilliad there is more to this town than meets the eye

Whats strange is how the tallest peak on the island is right nextdoor but Paleto bay is just perfectly flat.

My favourite peice of the Entire game is in Paleto, the Chair lift,to get up Mt Chiliad,which used to operate,but only sometimes in certain Events.

Paleto Bay is underateded

I’ve always liked Paleto. I try to keep my Online character “based” up there whenever new businesses and properties have it as an option. I think making your character the crime lord of the small town would be awesome.

this is so calm

When I played gta 5 online I literally downsized to the 6 car garage house in paleto just bc I loved the location. Rarely any players in a server on that side of the map.

Paleto lore at 00:38 in the morning chill af💯

The horse thing in the end is really driven down to the ground when in the game files, there was a different story mode mission similar to what we have where you save Lamar at the sawmill with Trevor, Micheal, and Franklin. Instead of the sawmill its a parking garage in the city and Micheal was supposed to arrive on horseback as backup

Do Grapeseed next!! I bought a house in Paleto because of your video.😂

you forgot to mention the few thousand people from liberty city who flew in and bought some of those houses for sale and are presently sharing them.

I bought my businesses in GTA online just to view the beautiful mountain every time I spawn.

i made my main home and businesses in Paleto Bay exactly because it's so remote, but mostly because i just like the small town atmosphere and trees in the area. I also just like the idea of pretty much owning half the town, and i like that it has two rivaling Motorcycle Clubs just down the road from one another, closer than the two by the beach in the city! It's a shame people these days prefer flying mkII's over minor distances than having a long peaceful drive through the woodland area.. honestly wish there were smaller villages between the mountains as well, just for passing through. only really one place comes to mind by the river, but it doesn't really count as a village.. Thanks for giving the small town some attention, i hope gta6 will have more places similar to it!

went to the comments to say “why am I even watching this” but upon realizing I missed som of the video I rewinded

The bounty hunters update has alot of bale jumpers go to paleto bay, which makes sence as its ideal as a place to laylow. I myself bought a property there as roleplay for a "place to retire incase it all goes tits up".

i have a chemistry final that i haven’t finished studying for in two hours and im watching this 💀

Back in the day, during my PS3 gameplay of GTA Online, I had all my property located in Paleto Bay & Sandy Shores and some in the big city. I used to spawn all the time in either Sandy Shores or Paleto Bay as we all know how chaotic the lobbies were. And in low & medium apartments & garages, the modders & hackers wouldn't touch those except in rare occasions.

There actually is unused horse sounds/michael mentioning it in the files. It originally was going to be used in a cut heist to rob Martin's home (the one outside the city)

Paleto bay reminds me heavily of Dante’s peak because of the beautiful mountain and the all round landscape it has. In the movie, it’s also a town surrounded by wilderness and a huge dormant volcano that erupts If you have seen the movie. You know all of it.

The biggest clue as to what Paleto Bay represents was actually right at the beginning of the video. The car dealership project was abandoned in 2008. And the town seems to be economically depressed. The whole town represents the stalling of our economy in 2008. Keep in mind that for the adults who created this game, that would have been very fresh in their minds, and a lot of them probably would have been impacted by the 2008 real estate crash in particular. (Also why so many houses are on sale)

1:23 i feel like people forget lore wise los santos sandy shores and paleto are wayyyy bigger than their ingame size

Another thing, in the mission where trevor, franklin, and lamar drive to paleto bay in the big rig, they say it takes "four hours" to drive to Paleto Bay. Even though its only like 10 minutes or so.

i’ve got a nice house in paleto neighbours are pretty friendly but there’s something sketchy going on at the cluckin bell

Best place to live and spawn when you retire from GTA Online and it is getting kind of gentrified nowadays with the bunkers, I don't want to spawn near Little Sudan at Eclipse or some other part of LS

Actually, horses were planned as far as I know. If I remember correctly, in some mission, it was originally planned that they'd ride on horses, but they weren't supposed to have much (if any) use outside of that mission, so it was scrapped as it would have been too much effort.